HS Baseball, Softball roundup

HS BaseballErie-Prophetstown 6, Kewanee 2Erie-Prophetstown’s Zach Hart belted a 2-run homer in the first inning to lead the Panthers over the Boilers in Thursday’s Three Rivers Conference game.Hart’s shot cleared the right-center field fence to put E-P on top 2-0. The Panthers added three more runs in the second to extend the margin to 5-0.E-P’s Zach Inskeep added a solo shot to dead center in the fourth inning to make it 6-0 Panthers.The Boilers put together a rally in the bottom of the sixth, started by a lead-off single from Dayton Ince.Kewanee loaded the bases with no outs and Ince scored on a Jared Nimrick grounder mishandled by E-P’s defense to put the hosts on the board. John Moraski scored on a wild pitch to pull the Boilers within 6-2, but the Panthers wiggled out of the jam without any further damage.Dawson Nuding singled in the seventh inning with one out for the Boilers, but Kewanee couldn’t put a rally together.Moraski started and took the loss for Kewanee, while Ethan Howard earned the win for E-P. Nuding worked 5 1/3 innings of solid relief for the Boilers, allowing just one run.The loss drops Kewanee to 3-3 and 0-1 in the TRAC-9.

Annawan-Wethersfield 3, Stark County 0Grant Baele’s 2-run single in the bottom of the sixth gave the Titans some breathing room in Thursday’s Lincoln Trail Conference win over the Rebels.Trevor Lay worked six innings for the Titans, striking out 11 and allowing just two hits. Tony Gripp worked the seventh inning to notch the save.Matt Jenkins added two hits and an RBI for the Titans.Sam Klooster took the loss for the Rebels, allowing seven hits and fanning five in six innings.The Titans improve to 4-0 in the LTC and 4-1 overall, while the Rebels fall to 0-4 in conference and 0-5 overall.

Galva-Williamsfield 4, Princeville 0The Wildcats improved to 4-0 in the Lincoln Trail Conference behind James Doubet’s 14 strikeout, complete game performance.Logan Smith led the G-W offense with a pair of triples and two RBI. Donovan Benson added two hits and an RBI, and Tyler Doubet had an RBI double.

HS SoftballErie-Prophetstown 25, Kewanee 1It was a rough Three Rivers Conference opener for the Boiler Girls Thursday night at Northeast Park.Erie-Prophetstown pounded out 19 hits and Kewanee’s defense committed 13 errors.The Boiler Girls had three hits in the game — Jenny Kubinsky, Kylie Smith and Meagan Smith — and Plum knocked in Kewanee’s lone run.Jena Forward and Savannah Mettler knocked in five runs apiece for E-P.The Boiler Girls drop to 1-2 overall and 0-1 in the TRAC-9.

Stark County 9, Annawan-Wethersfield 6Danielle Kenney and Madisyn Paxson homered to lift the Lady Rebels over A-W for the second time in three days.Kenney hit a solo homer in the first inning, and Paxson added a 2-run shot in the fifth inning. Stark County scored three insurance runs in the top of the seventh to stretch the lead to 9-5.Samantha McGuire had three hits and knocked in a run for the Lady Rebels.Megan Foes had two hits and knocked in four runs for A-W, while Kailynn Osborne added two hits. Elizabeth Hippen earned the win for Stark County, scattering nine hits and striking out 10.Ali Kazubowski started and took the loss for A-W. The Lady Rebels and Lady Titans are both 3-3 overall and 2-2 in the LTC.

Princeville 17, Galva-Williamsfield 3Princeville avenged Tuesday night’s come-from-behind loss to G-W by beating the Lady Bombers in six innings Thursday night in Williamsfield.Individual game stats were unavailable at press time.

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